With all my heart, Ile be legitimate and ſilent as an apple-ſquire, Ile ſee nothing, and ſay nothing.

Swain refers to this history of Australian Aboriginal being as a hermeneutics of ubiety, that is, a hermeneutics of whereness or of being in a definite place.

A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.

Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...